Nordic Sea Winery

Last week I had the honor of joining Oenoforos on a travel to Simrishamn in Skåne during the day to visit Nordic Sea Winery.
It was an incredible experience that I will never forget, a lot of impressions and a whole lot of inspiration. Wow.

The day started with a tour of the factory to see how the production works. (They pack 14,000 (!) liters per hour and between 24-27 boxes a minute)
Then there was a wine tasting with a couple of the wines produced by Oenoforos, including Footsteps, Crudo Prosecco, Cycliste Côtes du Rhône Villages, Il Nostro and many others.
This was followed by a delicious lunch consisting of caesar salad, chorizo, truffle salami, chicken and caprese salad plus much more served in the form of a share-with-friends style where you sent the food around and enjoyed it together. Perfect setup!

We also helped to crop the vineyards together with Gerd Stepp, who is also responsible for a wine project at Nordic Sea Winery right now.
The project is based on picking the grapes (whole bunches) for wine at their vineyard in Tuscany, but then not doing anything else but just loading them on a chilled lorry and bringing them up to Simrishamn to complete the process completely on site in the winery here in Sweden. They have chosen to use the syrah grape, which, like the project, is very unique just because they come from Tuscany.

We tasted this wine directly from its different storage vessels, ie. brand new oak barrels, used oak barrels as well as amphoras, which are made of a kind of clay to produce a very unique taste for the wine.
They have chosen to put the wine on different types of barrels just to find out what kind of wine to get out and what happens under the various circumstances to see what you finally want.

I actually preferred the wine that was on the amphora as this highlighted a somewhat sweet character with taste of red berries in the wine, while there was a clear density and body that made the balance end up properly.
Not that much tannins, which also made me prefer this variant.